The TPF Grants Committee (TPF GC) is responsible for managing grants from the Perl Foundation to support Perl-related projects. The TPF GC is composed of Curtis "Ovid" Poe, Leon Brocard, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Thomas Klausner, Ben Tilly, Will "Coke" Coleda, and Perrin Harkins. They are assisted by grant managers Adrian Howard, Dave Rolsky, Rosellyne Thompson, Jeff Horwitz and Ricardo Signes. The TPF GC publishes regular calls for grant proposals, evaluates submitted proposals, assigns managers to funded projects, and monitors running grants.
Aula 03 - Introdução aos Diagramas de AtividadeAlberto Simões
Introdução aos Diagramas de Atividade (UML) para a disciplina de Planeamento de Sistemas de Informação do Mestrado em Informação Empresarial da Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão do Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
How To (Not) Open Source - Javazone, Oslo 2014gdusbabek
Releasing an open source project while maintaining a shipping product is hard! Different behaviors, attitudes and actions can help or hinder your cause; and they are not always obvious.
The Blueflood distributed metrics engine was released as open source software by Rackspace in August 2012. In the succeeding months the team had to strike a manageable balance between the challenges of growing a community, being good open source stewards, and maintaining a shipping product for Rackspace. Find out what worked, what did not work, and the lessons that can be applied as you endeavor to take your project out into the open.
In this presentation you will learn about strategies for releasing open source products, pitfalls to avoid, and the potential benefits of moving more of your development out in the open.
We have also made a few realizations about the community growing up around metrics. It is still young, and there are problems that come with that youth. I'll talk about some things we can do to make a better software ecosystem.
Aula 03 - Introdução aos Diagramas de AtividadeAlberto Simões
Introdução aos Diagramas de Atividade (UML) para a disciplina de Planeamento de Sistemas de Informação do Mestrado em Informação Empresarial da Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão do Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
How To (Not) Open Source - Javazone, Oslo 2014gdusbabek
Releasing an open source project while maintaining a shipping product is hard! Different behaviors, attitudes and actions can help or hinder your cause; and they are not always obvious.
The Blueflood distributed metrics engine was released as open source software by Rackspace in August 2012. In the succeeding months the team had to strike a manageable balance between the challenges of growing a community, being good open source stewards, and maintaining a shipping product for Rackspace. Find out what worked, what did not work, and the lessons that can be applied as you endeavor to take your project out into the open.
In this presentation you will learn about strategies for releasing open source products, pitfalls to avoid, and the potential benefits of moving more of your development out in the open.
We have also made a few realizations about the community growing up around metrics. It is still young, and there are problems that come with that youth. I'll talk about some things we can do to make a better software ecosystem.
Inside NumPy: preparing for the next decadeRalf Gommers
Talk given at SciPy'19. Abstract:
Over the past year, and for the first time since its creation, NumPy has been operating with dedicated funding. NumPy developers think it has invigorated the project and its community. But is that true, and how can we know? We will give an overview of the actions we've taken to improve the sustainability of the NumPy project and its community. We will draw some lessons from a first year of grant-funded activity, discuss key obstacles faced, attempt to quantify what we need to operate sustainably, and present a vision for the project and how we plan to realize it.
Authors: Ralf Gommers, Matti Picus, Tyler Reddy, Stefan van der Walt and Charles Harris
Creating Community: A frank discussion between a megacorp and a start-upAll Things Open
Title: Creating Community: A frank discussion between a megacorp and a start-up
Presented at All Things Open 2022
Presented by Karen Chu & Matt Butcher
Abstract: Creating community is hard. But is it equally hard? In this session, Karen (from mega-corp Microsoft) and Matt (from tiny start-up Fermyon) get together for a frank discussion about fostering open source communities from two very different angles. Microsoft has (for historical reasons) often encountered negative perceptions about its goals, intentions, and methods. Fermyon has faced the opposite challenge of having to build a reputation from scratch. Having collaborated in the cloud native space since 2015, Karen and Matt will compare notes and talk about their challenges when engaging in open source work from different angles and the strengths that can come from working together. Some things don’t change whether you’re a big or small company while other things require you to have a tailored approach depending on your company size.
Things that are different:
- Budgets: Big vs small
- Conferences: Sponsorship, floor space, etc
- DevRel and Dev evangelism: Convincing internal DevRel vs building a team
- Perception by open source developers: Borg vs. "who are you, anyway?"
Things that are the same:
- Reaching Developers
- Social media and GitHub
- Handling community growth
- Tools for tracking community (orbit.love, Google Analytics)
The farewell talk I gave in Hong Kong after running Startups Unplugged and AcceleratorHK. Summing up the last year, some observations, suggestions and opportunities for startups in Hong Kong. Updates provided at: startupsunplugged.com
Move past the jargon. See how DevOps plays into incident management and resolution.
Join guest Forrester Analysts and experts from local Colorado companies for a ½ day event focused on the latest and greatest DevOps practices for those tasked with maintaining uptime.
Positive Disruption in the Enterprise: How Infusion Approaches New Technology...MongoDB
This presentation focuses on Infusion's strategic approach to organizational transformation in partnership with MongoDB. When our first customer asked us for our experience with MongoDB two years ago, we responded accidentally something along the lines of "We've heard great things about MangoDB." We knew of the product but our experience was limited. Our story centers around the path forward from there and what we have learned in this journey from experimentation to deployment. We will leverage real customer examples to highlight the journey forward and our methodology.
Crowdsourcing applications in business world. Netflix prize and other examples.
Team D9 Boston University School of Management MBA '2014
Gian Calvesbert, Kobi Magnezi, Will Reid, Sarah Rubinton, Abhishek Sinha
OSDC 2019 | Feature Branching considered Evil by Thierry de PauwNETWAYS
With DVCSs, branch creation became very easy, but it comes at a certain cost. Long living branches break the flow of the software delivery process, impacting stability and throughput. The session explores why teams are using feature branches, what problems are introduced by using them and what techniques exist to avoid them altogether. It explores exactly what’s evil about feature branches, which is not necessarily the problems they introduce – but rather, the real reasons why teams are using them. After the session, you’ll understand a different branching strategy and how it relates to CI/CD.
FWD50 Agile/ Lean Workshop Slides - November 1
Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Authors/Presenters: Dan MurphyGlenn Waters, Ellen Grove, Craig Szelestowski - Thanks Team
Sharing the learnings of our Global Working video competition as a way of saying thank you to everyone who helped make it such a success, and to help other companies who are considering a video competition as part of their activities.
David Duffett's CommCon 2019 Keynote Speech
The founders of 10 Open Source projects were asked to complete a survey. This talk was based on the results of that survey.
We pitched this presentation on 24 June 2016 in K22 in Ghent. It describes what W4P has become, our process in making it, what you can do with this Open Source template and a brief overview of the first pilots, including their wins and fails.
why do some teams perform and others fail? Team effectiveness research has highlighted key actions you can take to enhance team performance. While many are obvious, they are uncommon, so the canvas makes them actionable.
A quick introduction on code standards, documentation and testing for first year grading students. Very incomplete and opinionated. Still fun and interesting, I hope!
Inside NumPy: preparing for the next decadeRalf Gommers
Talk given at SciPy'19. Abstract:
Over the past year, and for the first time since its creation, NumPy has been operating with dedicated funding. NumPy developers think it has invigorated the project and its community. But is that true, and how can we know? We will give an overview of the actions we've taken to improve the sustainability of the NumPy project and its community. We will draw some lessons from a first year of grant-funded activity, discuss key obstacles faced, attempt to quantify what we need to operate sustainably, and present a vision for the project and how we plan to realize it.
Authors: Ralf Gommers, Matti Picus, Tyler Reddy, Stefan van der Walt and Charles Harris
Creating Community: A frank discussion between a megacorp and a start-upAll Things Open
Title: Creating Community: A frank discussion between a megacorp and a start-up
Presented at All Things Open 2022
Presented by Karen Chu & Matt Butcher
Abstract: Creating community is hard. But is it equally hard? In this session, Karen (from mega-corp Microsoft) and Matt (from tiny start-up Fermyon) get together for a frank discussion about fostering open source communities from two very different angles. Microsoft has (for historical reasons) often encountered negative perceptions about its goals, intentions, and methods. Fermyon has faced the opposite challenge of having to build a reputation from scratch. Having collaborated in the cloud native space since 2015, Karen and Matt will compare notes and talk about their challenges when engaging in open source work from different angles and the strengths that can come from working together. Some things don’t change whether you’re a big or small company while other things require you to have a tailored approach depending on your company size.
Things that are different:
- Budgets: Big vs small
- Conferences: Sponsorship, floor space, etc
- DevRel and Dev evangelism: Convincing internal DevRel vs building a team
- Perception by open source developers: Borg vs. "who are you, anyway?"
Things that are the same:
- Reaching Developers
- Social media and GitHub
- Handling community growth
- Tools for tracking community (orbit.love, Google Analytics)
The farewell talk I gave in Hong Kong after running Startups Unplugged and AcceleratorHK. Summing up the last year, some observations, suggestions and opportunities for startups in Hong Kong. Updates provided at: startupsunplugged.com
Move past the jargon. See how DevOps plays into incident management and resolution.
Join guest Forrester Analysts and experts from local Colorado companies for a ½ day event focused on the latest and greatest DevOps practices for those tasked with maintaining uptime.
Positive Disruption in the Enterprise: How Infusion Approaches New Technology...MongoDB
This presentation focuses on Infusion's strategic approach to organizational transformation in partnership with MongoDB. When our first customer asked us for our experience with MongoDB two years ago, we responded accidentally something along the lines of "We've heard great things about MangoDB." We knew of the product but our experience was limited. Our story centers around the path forward from there and what we have learned in this journey from experimentation to deployment. We will leverage real customer examples to highlight the journey forward and our methodology.
Crowdsourcing applications in business world. Netflix prize and other examples.
Team D9 Boston University School of Management MBA '2014
Gian Calvesbert, Kobi Magnezi, Will Reid, Sarah Rubinton, Abhishek Sinha
OSDC 2019 | Feature Branching considered Evil by Thierry de PauwNETWAYS
With DVCSs, branch creation became very easy, but it comes at a certain cost. Long living branches break the flow of the software delivery process, impacting stability and throughput. The session explores why teams are using feature branches, what problems are introduced by using them and what techniques exist to avoid them altogether. It explores exactly what’s evil about feature branches, which is not necessarily the problems they introduce – but rather, the real reasons why teams are using them. After the session, you’ll understand a different branching strategy and how it relates to CI/CD.
FWD50 Agile/ Lean Workshop Slides - November 1
Ottawa Ontario, Canada. Authors/Presenters: Dan MurphyGlenn Waters, Ellen Grove, Craig Szelestowski - Thanks Team
Sharing the learnings of our Global Working video competition as a way of saying thank you to everyone who helped make it such a success, and to help other companies who are considering a video competition as part of their activities.
David Duffett's CommCon 2019 Keynote Speech
The founders of 10 Open Source projects were asked to complete a survey. This talk was based on the results of that survey.
We pitched this presentation on 24 June 2016 in K22 in Ghent. It describes what W4P has become, our process in making it, what you can do with this Open Source template and a brief overview of the first pilots, including their wins and fails.
why do some teams perform and others fail? Team effectiveness research has highlighted key actions you can take to enhance team performance. While many are obvious, they are uncommon, so the canvas makes them actionable.
A quick introduction on code standards, documentation and testing for first year grading students. Very incomplete and opinionated. Still fun and interesting, I hope!
Modelação de Dados com DER e Modelo Relacional, das aulas de Planeamento de Sistemas de Informação do Mestrado em Informação Empresarial da Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão do Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
Aula 04 - Introdução aos Diagramas de SequênciaAlberto Simões
Introdução ultra-light aos diagramas de sequência, para a disciplina de planeamento de sistemas de informação do mestrado em informação empresarial da escola superior de estudos industriais e de gestão do instituto politecnico do porto, ano lectivo de 2012/2013.
Uma introdução ligeira às redes de PERT e gráficos de GANTT. Aula de Planeamento de Sistemas de Informação do Mestrado em Informação Empresarial da Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Gestão, do Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave.
Apresentação sobre arquitecturas de tradução automática, realizada na Escola de Verão em PLN realizada em 2009 na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Extracção de Recursos para Tradução AutomáticaAlberto Simões
Apresentação sobre extracção de recursos para tradução automática, realizada na Escola de Verão em PLN realizada em 2009 na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
2. TPF Grants Committee?
TPF supports Perl-related projects development;
TPF GC is responsible for:
publishing calls for grant proposals;
evaluating and ranking grant proposals;
assigning grant managers to funded grants;
performing regular reports on running grants;
3. Who is TPF GC?
TPF GC is composed by:
me, Curtis “Ovid” Poe, Leon Brocard, Rafael
Garcia-Suarez, Thomas Klausner, Ben Tilly, Will
“Coke” Coleda and Perrin Harkins;
TPF GC is helped by Grant managers:
Adrian Howard, Dave Rolsky, Rosellyne
Thompson, Jeff Horwitz and Ricardo Signes;
4. Who is TPF GC?
CURTIS (OVID) POE
• Previous GC Chair
5. Who is TPF GC?
• YAPC::EU orange founder
LEON BROCARD (ACME)
6. Who is TPF GC?
RAFAEL GARCIA-SUAREZ
• Perl 5.10 Pumpkin
13. Why Them?
We need someone!
Somebody will always ask!
Voted originally by TPF board.
Members addition is now voted by itself.
Yes, this might be bad!
Yes, this is good as well!
Pick your choice
14. How does it work?
A call for grant proposals each three months;
Proposals are received under RT during a month;
Proposals are posted for community discussion;
Proposals are voted by GC community;
Results are published;
Grant managers assigned to accepted proposals;
15. FAQ:
Who can make proposals?
anyone;
What kind of proposals?
any project relevant to the community;
How to create a proposal?
follow the guidelines in the webpage;
16. Proposal contents (1/3)
Basics:
Your name and email;
A title for your project;
A small but incisive abstract;
Your biography;
19. What kind of proposals?
From small to big tasks;
From simple to complex tasks;
Don’t propose a complex task if newbie;
Not necessary new projects:
why not to correct bugs?
why not to add features to existing code?
20. How do you evaluate?
Check if the proposal is relevant to community;
(now easier with community feedback)
Compare project with existing alternatives;
Evaluate proposal schedule and feasibility;
Compare relevance with other proposals;
Check if the user is able to complete the task;
Evaluate the amount requested...
21. Success stories
Improve Perl 5 (Nicholas Clark)
Perl 5 maintenance and development is
proceeding steadily, but there are a number of
stubborn bugs that no volunteer has had the time
to work on. This project will ensure that these
bugs are resolved, as well as providing resource to
develop new features for both 5.8.x and 5.10.
$11.000 (most expensive grant ever)
22. Success stories
Nicholas Clark:
[Why would not submit another grant to TPF...]
what was a hobby became work, without any of
the benefits that work usually has.
Success constrains: submitter actually has to
want to do it, and the issue of money has to be
the actual blocker. Grants don't create time, do
increase pressure, and for most people the
amount of money the grant offers isn't going to
be significant compared with what they could
earn commercially.
23. Success stories
Policies for Perl::Critic (Chris Dolan)
Implement a selection of (20) new policies for
Perl::Critic.
$2.000
24. Success stories
Chris Dolan:
Motivation: [...] I knew that I wasn't going to get
it done without external motivation. I work best
under pressure, [...] The money made it easier to
justify the hours spent [...], but was a smaller
part of the equation than the publicity.
Success constrains: (a) a respected project
that is already underway (b) realistic, quantifiable
end goals (c) an experienced grantee (d)
concrete intermediate goals
25. Success stories
Promote pVoice and the use of Perl for writing
Assistive Software (Jouke Visser)
Perl may not be the language people would think
of first to create something like pVoice. [...] I want
to show everyone that Perl is perfectly suitable for
this job. Besides this objective, I also want to
convince medical professionals that there's an
alternative for expensive proprietary software to
assist physically challenged people [...]
$3.500
26. Success stories
Re-factoring Editor Grant (Adam Kennedy)
Synopsis not relevant: the original objective was
not completed! But another (probably better)
objective was achieved: Strawberry Perl!
Original requested value was paid: $5.000;
27. Not successful stories
Media-Wiki Syntax Parser
project accepted, but grantee did not start
working right after it being accepted;
grantee got a $job;
grantee lost interest on the subject
Make Money vs Do Interesting Things
28. Not successful stories
Running Too-Long Grants
Interesting tasks, but lack of organization;
Task might be useful, but not in the mood;
Try to follow the schedule!
Running twice the schedule is OK!
Running more than that, is procrastination!